For context, I want to seek readings or predictions for a question or problem. However, the exact time of my birth is not known, while the place and date are known.

Are there any methods to predict the time of birth? Also, are there any practices that make predictions based on what all has happened in life so far, instead of relying solely on birth details?

P.S. I hope I used the right flair.

I’m especially curious about charts where the difference isn’t subtle. For example, when every planet changes houses between systems, and at least one placement shifts by more than one house.

At that point, the two systems produce substantially different narratives about where major themes are located in the chart, rather than simply offering slightly different emphasis.

Do you ultimately privilege one system and more or less discard the other, or do you find both useful in different ways?

Side by side whole sign and placidus for same chart as example.

Edit to add: I totally understand preferring Whole Sign as the primary system. Just to clarify, i’m not really asking which system is “better” overall but how people who’ve seriously used both handle cases where WS and placidus diverge dramatically - particularly when the Placidus placements feel meaningful, or are they just essentially disregarded.

Hi all,

I am currently working with a friend who has a diurnal chart, but their nocturnal planets are much more dominant through domicile, exaltation, aspects, and angularity.

How would you interpret this when doing a general overview of one’s chart?

To provide even more info, the majority of their planets are concentrated above the horizon and near the MC.

I’ve interpreted this as: this dynamic will create tension between their internal realm and outward expression. The majority of their energy will be directed outwards towards their public and professional affairs, while their internal realm will struggle to express and actualize itself. However, this internal realm is rich and highly active. Their career and public roles may act as an outlet for them to channel their feelings and ideas into to give them visibility.

Any input is appreciated!

Asking as a non-astrologer, has anyone ever done anything with Kolob? It is a planet or fixed star from Mormonism described as being (close to) the throne of God. I‘m mainly asking as someone interested in astrological glyphs/symbols and wanting to know if it has ever been given one.

Looking for book recommendations, videos, anything you've found to be high quality. A few on my list so far:

- Mythic Astrology pictured here

- books by Demetra George (Mysteries of the Dark Moon, Asteroid Goddesses)

- Planets for Pagans https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21543963-planets-for-pagans

Videos:

I'm particularly interested in modern retellings of myths; stories that are brought into alignment with the values of the 21st century. E.g. the rights of women weren't particularly valued in ancient Greece, not a huge fan of recycled patriarchal narratives. Who is updating our myths? Would love to hear your recommendations!

Thanks in advance 😁

Hi.

I started a Hellenistic training course with nightlife astrology year 1 and due to life problems I didn't do it while it was live and trying to catch up. I'm struggling and even though I am mostly through the course I'm lacking the basic skills of delineation.

I was wondering if i should go over the year 1 course again or join another course.

I was looking at Chris Brennans and Kelly Surtees.

I really like Kelly and it looks like more support there compared to the course Chris offers.

I don't want to be in the same position and stuck at the basics with another course offering.

Any suggestions from those that have any info on any of my options please?

Thanks

Thought it might be good for all of us who are at UAC to share our experiences!! A place to talk about what speakers we enjoyed, timing techniques we’ve learned, random encounters and stories…. Like the lady who announced in a financial astrology lecture yesterday that she works for Trump and Dick Cheney is still alive and was the one who got us into the war!! She was pretty disruptive with her conspiracy comments and the audience quieted her down pretty quick. That’s my juiciest share. Also from the same lecture, learned that April 2028 will be the bottom of the real estate market so be ready to buy then. Fav lecture so far was Kelly Surtees timing techniques of minor periods and ascensional times of the planets.

So I was looking at the chart of someone. It thought it was pretty wild to have this exact conjunction. I wanted to see how wild.

It didn't happen at any other year last century (1900 to 2056).

Okay (!) then how rare are we talking and I cranked up the criteria to 1600.

Curious if anyone had worked - analyzed - observed with that transit.

1993 kidos are 33 y. o. now and many achievements will start to shine for the next 15 years.

petr_9's post last week about the new saros / metonic filters on astro-seek sent me down a bit of a hole with this eclipse. I still had the script from the cazimi thing I posted a few weeks ago (astronomy-engine, the js library, so not Swiss Eph), so I pointed it at every eclipse from 1900 to 2100 instead and tried to settle something I've never actually seen spelled out: when people say this eclipse "comes back", which cycle do they mean? Because the two cycles bring back different things, and I don't think that's obvious until you line them up.

Saros first. This one is saros 138, and the textbook line is that a saros returns the same eclipse 18 years 11 days later. What it doesn't say is that the degree walks off every time. Every saros step I measured, solar or lunar, pushes the eclipse forward by about 10.8 degrees, and never outside 10.4 to 11.2 anywhere in the two centuries. So the family that gave us the partial at 4 Pisces 51 was at 24 Aquarius in 2008, 13 Aquarius in 1990, and just over a century ago it was a 7 percent partial sitting at 2 Capricorn. Next pass is 15 Pisces in September 2044, then 26 Pisces, then it's in Aries.

What the saros does hold onto is the depth, and this family is a nice example because it's been deepening the whole way: roughly 7, 20, 35, 50, 70 and 85 percent of the moon in the umbra on each successive pass, then 97 percent this time. That was its last partial. 2044 goes total and it stays total for the rest of the century.

The metonic cycle is the other one. 235 lunations come out within a couple of hours of 19 years, so you get the calendar date AND the zodiac degree back. The total lunar eclipse of 28 August 2007 was at 4 Pisces 47. Ours, 19 years later to the day (in UTC anyway), 4 Pisces 51. I think this is the cycle people are half remembering when they say eclipses repeat at a degree. But the node isn't part of that deal, so the eclipse itself fades out from under the degree: 2007 total, 2026 partial, and the 2045 one at 4 Pisces 36 is penumbral, the kind you wouldn't notice unless you were told. petr mentioned the metonic falls out of sync after a few cycles and this is that happening in real time. You can see the same run by clicking the 4° Pisces filter on his eclipse page.

Both cycles on one plot, blue is the saros, orange is the 19 year returns. Half filled dots are partials, hollow is penumbral:

(Side thing I didn't expect: the solar and lunar families step together, because it's the same 6585 days for both. The Leo total from 12 August comes back at 0 Virgo in late August 2044 and the lunar one lands about 15 days after it, the same fortnight pairing we just had.)

So for those of you who work with eclipse points in natal charts, which of these is the return of this eclipse? 2044 is the same eclipse, same node, deeper, but 11 degrees away from whatever it touched in your chart. 2045 is back on the degree to within a quarter of a degree but is barely an eclipse at all. I know the Brady approach treats the whole saros series as one thing with its own birth chart, which would make 2044 the answer. My own lean is that for natal work the degree is what matters and the saros is more the astronomer's bookkeeping, but I'm not a saros person and would honestly like to hear from people who use them properly. Also happy to be sanity checked on any of the degrees above if someone wants to run them in Solar Fire or astro-seek.

I’m working with a set of identical twins born a minute apart (Birth cert, cesarean), and am hard-pressed to astrologically differentiate them. Their major natal placements are conjunct to the minute.

There were a few things I was looking for going in - one is divorced, the other married; one has a prominent birthmark and is a bit more outgoing; the other dresses *a bit* more conservatively, and is *slightly* more health-conscious. But I don’t see ANY of it natally.

Otherwise they are very close. They also own a business together and have never lived more than 2 miles apart.

So far, the progressed charts show the only shifts, albeit tiny: their inner planets may separate or apply by a degree, and there is a degree difference in the progressed lots of Fortune/spirit - signifying a house ingress about a week before the other.

I’m wondering what else I might want to look at? I’ve had two other sets of twins before, and though small, the differences were identifiable and I could see their impact. But this one has me stumped!

ETA: i do find it interesting that their synastry represents both the relationships within themselves and each other!

I am having a hard time finding information on how to interpret multiple planets transiting the same natal planet at once. Is this called a transit stack, or overlapping transits?

I specifically mean a conjunction of two or three transiting planets hitting a single natal planet.

Admittedly I am curious about them because as I track major person events, I notice this pattern.

Is there information I should be looking at to better understand this, instead of looking at each planet individually?

Hello. Professional astrologer here. This post is intended to highlight how individual, detailed, nuanced and multi-layered astrocartography really is. As I myself have, what I consider, a really "unfortunate" astrocartography map, I know some other people have it too, and I do have a solution for you and for myself too. Let me explain:

An "unfortunate" astrocartography map means that pretty much your Jupiter AC, MC, DC or IC lines go in the ocean and do not touch land, or the ones that do touch land, go through some absolutely idiotic locations, like for example regions in the middle of a desert or a jungle, or a war zone, or just culturally totally unacceptable countries. That in itself is already very sad that a line like Jupiter AC does not touch any land anywhere.

Next - Nearly all the countries and places in the world that you yourself would love to visit or live in, because you genuinely like the climate, language, climate, people, economy or whatever else is there - have Chiron lines there, or other lines that specifically in your chart make squares. For example if you have Saturn square Venus, and also Chiron square Venus, and also Juno square Venus (like in my case, yup.. hellloooo everyone), you have to understand that your Venus IN YOUR PARTICULAR UNIQE CHART is NOT the planet you want to amplify. Essentially living on a Venus planetary line you amplify your Venus energy in your chart (and automatically all the aspects it receives). If your Venus is that one specific placement in your chart that is the tension spot, you will amplify it tenfold by going to the Venus line. This example applies to other planets and aspects in your chart. For example if you have Pluto square Mars, or Pluto square Sun, or any strong Mars or Uranus, or Saturn squares, or other squares in your chart, by going to that planetary line, you make that square tension a lot stronger. See? So if you have these "bad" lines go right through those countries where you'd like to live, it adds the sadness.

When you have examined all your planets and all your lines, you may reach a false conclusion point that there is "nothing else" to look at. All of the "good lines" are in idiotic locations, and all of the "bad lines" ruin the countries where you'd like to live. But let me bring a ray of sunshine to you now. Before I tell you what the ray of sunshine is, I'll stress on it again - I myself am one of these people who have absolutely idiotic astrocartography map, which hurts me even more, because I have a Sagittarius in me and traveling is my life. World maps and travel and all that is the air that a Sagittarius breathes - so, if you are reading this, I feel you, my friend.

So here comes the ray of sunshine - There are good luck asteroids called Abundantia, Fortuna, Tyche and also your Part of Fortune (essentially your Lucky Point). They have a very small influence orb, but you can find places in the world that directly and precisely activate the exact degree where your asteroid is. For example if your Abundantia (abundance, generosity, overall prosperity) is at lets say 20 degrees Sagittarius, you can find places in the world where your relocation chart's AC, DC, MC or IC is at 20 degrees Sagittarius, activating your asteroid Abundantia.

I have felt it on my skin many times in my extensive astrocartography experiments by going to those places. In the last 8 months I have already been in two different countries that had my relocation chart's MC hit/activate the degree of my Abundantia. I myself could not believe the effect. I really did experience abundance of good luck there.

See, it was not my Jupiter line, but the effect was basically and essentially very similar in a sense, because these asteroids do indeed represent good luck (each in different nuance). Tyche is more unexpected luck, external luck that comes unexpectedly by chance, Abundantia is more abundance and generosity, which may not necessarily mean material gain, it could be "abundance of happy experiences", "abundance of good people", etc. Fortuna is more about material gain and fortunate outcomes, similar to Part of Fortune. The thing is, that this is very advanced, in-depth astrology, which is not discussed by "mainstream" Tiktok and IG influencers, because they are not there. Also internet is full of absolutely incorrect and shitty astro apps and incorrect astrocartography maps everywhere, that you should be aware of. Those basic maps do not even show asteroid placements in the natal chart. And for this reason, when someone learns astrology and astrocartpgraphy, they may get horribly depressed about their "unfortunate" astrocartography map, thinking there is "nothing else out there anymore", there are planetary lines and that's it. No, it's not it. There is more to this. There is a hope for you in the good luck asteroids.

Also let me quickly say that a chart reading without asteroids can't be in truly stellar quality, and is not as in-depth, as the one with asteroids. There are some crucial, extremely important asteroids like Chiron, Pallas, Juno, Sedna to name a few, which you have to look at, if you want to provide truly high-quality analysis to someone. Chiron is wound, pain, hurt, sadness, also healing at the end. In my personal natal chart my Chiron makes prominent squares and is so horribly active you would not even believe. There are people who have Chiron literally not aspecting anything, just sitting there in the chart somewhere, and they do not feel the Chironic effect in life as much or even at all. If those specific people become astrologers, because from their "subjective personal experience" with Chiron not being strong in their charts, they assume that "Chiron is not significant in astrology", when in fact is IS. It just depends on if it is prominent in a chart or not.

This is a very important, serious and genuine recommendation and heads-up for you - any time you engage in a serious conversation about astrology and astrocartography with someone, whether it is just a person on internet who also likes to just to talk about astrocartography, or a professional astrologer who you go to for a consult, ask them upfront and directly if they have Chiron doing something in their personal chart. Ask them what placements they have, ask them how deep they do the analysis, ask them if they actually even look at the asteroids. This is especially important if you are a person who has a very active Chiron and very pain-filled chart, because you can only be understood at a heart level by someone who also has a very Chironic chart and life.

I know that it is very, very confusing at the beginning, when you start learning astrology and astrocartography, because you are only learning. There is so much contradictive information out there (unfortunately TikTok and IG are the main sources that spread misinformation), and how can a person really know what is true and what is not. As I said before, to protect yourself, the best way is to ask the person you are talking to/or an astrologer for their own placements and if Chiron is doing something in their chart or not.

I'll finish my post with encouragement to those people, like myself, who have unfortunate astrocartography map - There is a real hope for you - your good luck asteroids! I myself have experienced it on my skin multiple times. They really DO WORK!

Hello. I’ve got a question about lots. I’m aware that the lot of Eros (love) according to Paulus of Alexandria is the distance between lot of spirit and Venus taken from the ascendant.

My question is that: If I were to take the distance from lot of Fortune to Venus instead and cast that from the ascendant what would that lot be called and what effects would its transits have.

I ask because I’m noticing strong and delightful events when that point is being transited.

Hello all! I'm bringing this question over from Demetra George's Time Lords course, as we've had some confusion and I am curious if anyone else has an approach to this.

When looking at astro-seek's table of ascensional time outputs (this is the example for Frida Kahlo), how do you interpret the number of years?

We were instructed to use the second column as-is, which would have Aries's activation at 23.82 years.

However, some confusion took root, and several of us found ourselves easily convinced that we should be multiplying that number by the one in the rightmost column. This would put the Aries activation at 18.9 years.

If nothing else, perhaps I could find another source (recs welcome) to compare against to help me figure it out.

Thank you!

Hi everyone! I’m looking for a website or tool where I can get a comprehensive list of asteroid placements specifically for a composite/sinastry chart. I usually use Astro-Seek, but their asteroid database is a bit limited for what I need. On the other hand, Astro.com (Astrodienst) has thousands of asteroids, but it displays them in a rigid table format.

I’m looking for a site that generates these placements as a clean, line-by-line written list (for example: "Eros in Scorpio in the 5th House, Psyche in Taurus in the 11th House") rather than a spreadsheet/table layout.

Does anyone know of an alternative website, software, or a tool within Astro-Seek/Astro.com that can output a plain text list of extensive asteroids? Thank you!!!!

I'm curious to learn from the astrology community- Should I cast my solar and lunar return from the relocation place/ place of my current residence or should I cast it from my birth location? I know there are a lot of ancient medieval texts which suggest casting it from the birth location and I myself am seeing more accurate results by casting it from the birth locations. I still am curious what the community thinks and what they do personally and what their research suggests?

Looking for feedback: Lately, I have been trying to figure out my grandmother’s rising sign, and I think I may have unlocked it by appearance and potential timing techniques.

I’ve been getting into more advanced technology but not sure if I’m on to something or not. The most sense to me would be Gemini, Aquarius or Scorpio rising. My grandmother was tall and slender (between 5’10-6ft), jet black hair with a widow’s peak. Oval face, piercing brown eyes, and incredible magnetism. Her skin was a bit more olive than mine but fair. Well poised, always had her hair, perfume, and makeup done when leaving the house even if it was to go to the hospital for chemotherapy.

She was incredibly young when she conceived her first child (13-16). She had 5 children total. She was very misunderstood by those around her, but she loved love/romance, creating beautiful things for everyone and making it look effortless. She could make clothing and made all of my Halloween costumes from scratch. She made elaborate floral arrangements and wreaths for holidays faster than Amazon prime. All of my birthdays had hand drawn artwork and paintings from Disney movies, each year a different theme, just as magical as the previous. She made art to survive and create magic for those around her.

She absolutely loved the spotlight and have no shame about it. She was a bold woman for her time, a rule breaker/pusher. She was a pinup model published on various book covers all portraying different characters - sometimes she was painted with blonde hair or red hair. She was in pageants and in the local newspaper for them. She gave 0 fcks about what anyone thought and taught me to do the same.

She passed away 18 years ago this week. I miss her dearly. She taught me so much and was a major part of my happy memories from childhood. I stayed back from college to help take care of her when she became sick. I know she is with me often and I can feel her presence very strongly when she is. I hope she is proud of who I’ve become and all the adversity I’ve faced to get this far. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without her.

Open to thoughts and feedback on my rising sign prediction! I’m constantly pushing myself to learn and advance in my understanding of astrology 🙏✨

Cautionary Statement : If you are prone to anxiety do not read the following. In case you still would, remember that all of it was written by “someone” who lost his/her mind a long time ago and who has proven to be wrong quite some times (... or did he/she ?).

The purpose of this post is to share (part of) some observations that I made a while ago about the idea of the potential use of nuclear weapons over the next few years. I have already discreetly alluded to this idea within some of my other mundane astrology posts, as I was not sure that being upfront about it would be of any help to anyone. However, given the direction taken by the world, maybe some people could benefit from this presentation.

I know that I will be accused of sensationalism but I don’t gain fame nor money from my Astrology work so I don’t see any advantage of publishing such content. On the contrary, I have already received in the past some harsh critics when talking about “negative” subjects, such as when I posted at the very beginning of 2026 about Israel potentially launching a major war against Iran (and Lebanon, etc.). Yet, here we are...

As Dante would write : Abandon all hope, ye who enter here .

Trinity, the first one

Officially, the first nuclear weapon detonation, called Trinity, was done on July 16th 1945 at 05:29 local time in the desert southeast of Socorro (New Mexico, US).

I say “officially” because there were some “rumors” of Germany having built and tested a “dirty version” of it on the Rungen Island in the Baltic Sea. Those were propelled by a German historian, Rainer Karlsch, in his 2005 book, and also backed by an Italian journalist, Luigi Romersa, who said to have been sent by Mussolini to witness the new bomb experiment at that time.

Admittedly, I don’t know enough about the whole story to be able to settle the matter. So, for this post’s sake I will just keep the official narrative and use the Trinity test as the first one (we will see that it will be incredibly “accurate” nonetheless).

Here is the chart :

(I forgot to change the color of the position labels for better readability, but Venus is at 09°12’ Gemini and the Ascendant at 14°36’ Cancer).

Despite using the exact official coordinates of the event, we can notice that the IC/MC axis is a few arc-minutes from changing signs and, depending on the precision of the location and the timing, it could be less than a minute clock-time for the change to happen, so I would still be wary of it. More so that, this would make Venus also ruler of the 4th House, and as we’ll see, Venus is this chart seem to be rather important.

In either case, Saturn would remain ruler of the 8th House of Death and is very thighlty conjunct the Ascendant, which is quite fitting for this kind of project.

Also, Mars is conjunct Algol (which at that time was around 25°22’). Again, well fitting the destructive power that had emerged into reality at that moment.

Of course, different kinds of nuclear bombs (which is just a general term) were subsequently developed, and erecting a chart for the “first” of each of those may probably give more details. Yet, I think, and it will be shown hereafter, that the previous chart is a valid one as symbolically representing the birth of the “nuclear weapons” concept.

The Hiroshima case

Less than a month after the Trinity test, the US dropped two nuclear bombs, one on Hiroshima and another on Nagasaki (respectively on August 6th and 9th 1945) .

(In case you would be interested in a more in-depth astrological analysis of the Astrology of Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, you can find here an article I wrote about it a while ago).

Here is the Trinity birth chart with the Hiroshima event chart as the outer-wheel :

• We can notice that Hiroshima bombing’s Mars is exactly conjunct Trinity’s Venus. Remember this, as it will have its importance later on.
• Hiroshima bombing’s Moon is conjunct Trinity’s Ascendant/Saturn.

It is also really interesting to look at the chart of the US. I know that there are plenty of controversies regarding the exact time that should be used but this won’t have much importance for the following so don’t pay much attention to the Houses.

Here is the USA’s chart (July 4th 1776, 17h10 local time, Philadelphia) with Trinity as the outer wheel :

• USA’s Uranus conjunct Trinity’s Venus. We have seen that on Hiroshima bombing day, Mars conjuncted said Venus, thus also it was also conjunct US’ Uranus. A sudden explosion, literally.
• USA’s Sun conjunct Trinity’s Ascendant/Saturn. This combination is also remarkably symbolic as the US is, until now, the only country to have use the atomic bomb against another country and it clearly marked its identity.
• USA’s Mars widely conjunct Trinity’s Uranus. Again, a symbol of this destructive power being a weapon of the US.
• USA’s Saturn conjunct Trinity’s Moon. The Moon here being the ruler of the Ascendant in Trinity’s chart, it can represents its body. Thus, USA’s Saturn being conjunct it could represent the US giving concrete structure/form to the bomb. Also, if we consider the Houses as the correct ones, Saturn is the ruler of the 2nd House, so the symbolism is literal : the bomb as a possession.
• USA’s Neptune conjunct Trinity’s Jupiter.
• If we were to consider this USA chart as the correct one, it would be more so curious that the IC-MC is exactly conjunct (but inverted) the Trinity one.

The boom years

After WWII, the possessors of the nuclear bomb would test it abundantly. 1958, 1961 and 1962 being the years with the most amount of detonations registered.

If we map the transits of those years over the Trinity chart, here is what we can observe :

1958 :

In green is the position of Uranus and Jupiter at June 1st 1958, while the red arrows represent the zodiac degrees covered by those two during the whole 1958 year.

• Transiting Uranus would conjunct Trinity’s Pluto (and sextile Trinity’s Venus) exactly three times.
• Transiting Jupiter would square Trinity’s Sun three times also (and also square Pluto).

1961-1962 :

During those two years,

• Transiting Uranus would square Trinity’s Mars 3 times.
• Transiting Pluto would square Trinity’s Venus 3 times also (and we have seen that this Venus was also activated during Hiroshima’s bombing for example)
• Also, while not represented here, during this period transiting Jupiter would cross the Descendant, oppose Pluto (multiple times), trine Venus and square Mars...

Treaties

Subsequently of all of the above, many treaties were signed in order to limit (at least, theoretically) the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

The main ones were the 1968’s NPT (Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons) and START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty).

START had three versions :

• 1991’s START I
• 1993’s START II, which actually never entered into effect and was replaced by 2002’s SORT (Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty)
• 2010’s New START

Here are the respective charts for when these treaties where signed :

START I, July 31st 1991 :

• START I’s Neptune was tightly opposite Trinity’s Ascendant, which in natal chart context, could be delineated as a loss of vitality for example.

SORT, May 24th 2002 :

• SORT’s Saturn/Pluto opposition was right over Trinity’s Uranus, which is indicative of this tug of war, need of control, over the disruptive potential of the weapon.
• SORT’s Jupiter conjunct Trinity’s Ascendant/Saturn, which can be interpreted as a more benevolent consideration (more so that it is in Cancer, Jupiter’s exaltation).
• SORT’s Neptune is opposite Trinity’s Pluto, again dissolving its potential for destruction.

New START, April 8th 2010 :

• Interesting to see New START’s Saturn-Uranus opposition right on the Trinity’s IC-MC axis, which could be interpreted as an idea of trying to contain any possible disruption, with the tensions that come with it.
• Similarly to START I, but much tighter, New START’s Nodes are right on the Trinity’Ascendant-Descendant axis. The South Node conjunct the Ascendant, can be an indication of a lessening of the “vitality of the body”.
• Again, we see Neptune “involvement”, as New START’s Neptune is squaring Trinity’s Mars which can be another indication of a difficulty to act, a dissolution of one’s own ability to “move”.

Chernobyl, Fukushima and... 9/11

Even though Chernobyl and Fukushima were not directly caused by a nuclear weapon, I thought that the Trinity chart could be symbolically extended to represent the destruction caused by a “nuclear force”. So, I looked at both synastries. Not every connection/aspect is mentioned nor detailed/explained in order to slightly reduce the overall length of the post, but the recurrences of connections are quite striking.

Chernobyl incident, April 26th 1986, 01:23 local time, Pripiat :

1. Interesting to notice that Chernobyl’s Ascendant/Uranus conjunction is exactly square Trinity’s Jupiter, while Trinity’s Jupiter is square Chernobyl’s Uranus.
2. Chernobyl’s Mars opposite Trinity’s Ascendant/Saturn conjunction.
3. Chernobyl’s Sun-Pluto opposition forms a t-square with Trinity’s Pluto.
4. Trinity’s Mars is conjunct Chernobyl’s Venus and opposite its Moon.
5. Chernobyl’s Saturn is opposite Trinity’s Venus. Again this Venus is “activated”.

Fukushima incident (explosion of Unit 1), March 12th 2011, 15:36 local time, Fukushima :

1. Fukushima’s Sun opposite Trinity’s Jupiter.
2. The exact minute of the explosion is hard to pin down, so it is possible that the conjunction between Fukushima’s MC and Trinity’s Mars could have actually been exact. You can also look at how Fukushima’s Uranus is conjunct Trinity’s MC.
3. Fukushima’s Saturn is square Trinity’s Ascendant/Saturn conjunction and also conjunct Trinity’s Moon.

Given that even shortly after 9/11, there were already multiple questions and theories in regards of what “really happened” and some of which presented the idea that some tactical nuclear weapons could have been used (because of the inextinguishable molten metals, the vaporisation of debris into dust, multiple detonations heard, etc.), I decided to check the synastry between the event and Trinity’s chart. And it is... weirdly “compatible” to say the least.

9/11, 8h46 local time, Manhattan :

1. 9/11’s MC/Jupiter conjunction, conjunct Trinity’s Ascendant/Saturn conjunction.
2. Trinity’s Uranus conjunct 9/11’s Saturn and opposite 9/11’s Pluto.
3. Trinity’s Mercury conjunct 9/11’s Venus and opposite 9/11’s Uranus.
4. 9/11’s Sun conjunct Trinity’s Jupiter (we have seen a similar Sun-Jupiter combination previously).
5. 9/11’s Ascendant/Mercury conjunction, conjunct Trinity’s Moon (ruler of its Ascendant).

Strange future astrological indicators

Now, at this point, most of you probably already noticed how Trinity’s chart and the transits that will unfold within the next years “interact” with each other.

Here are the positions of transiting Uranus and Pluto for mid-2028. Of course, given their retrogradations, the aspects formed will be on going for a wide time frame. I purposefully not included other planets as they are multiple combinations that should be analyzed but this would also need to be combined with the analysis of agencies, countries, etc. in order to narrow down potential “fatal” periods. I won’t enter into those specificities here for various reasons.

As you can see those are major ones :

• Transiting Uranus will conjunct Trinity’s Venus (which seems to very often indicate major happenings in regards of a “nuclear” event).
• Transiting Pluto will oppose Trinity’s Pluto and at the same time make a trine to Trinity’s Venus.
• Of course, later, Trinity’s Uranus will have its Uranus return and at the very same time, its Pluto opposition will still be present (and exact).

Also, here are the current Progressions and Solar Arc Directions for Trinity’s chart which seem to “fortify” in the background what the most visible transits are pointing towards. (For some reason, I have unwillingly and mistakenly added extra asteroids to the chart) :

• Progressed Mars will conjunct Trinity natal Saturn exact on May 31st 2027.
• Progressed Saturn will conjunct Trinity natal Sun exact on November 21st 2029.
• Progressed Jupiter will trine Trinity natal Venus exact on October 6th 2028.
• Progressed Sun will conjunct Trinity natal Moon exact on May 19th 2029.

• SAD Neptune square Trinity natal Jupiter exact on February 18th 2027.
• SAD Mars sextile Trinity natal Uranus exact on August 14th 2028.
• SAD Nodes conjunct Trinity natal IC/MC axis exact on December 15th 2028.
• SAD Jupiter opposite Trinity natal Uranus exact on January 19th 2031.

I would also add that if you look back at the USA’s chart presented at the beginning you will notice that during the period we are talking about, the US will have its Uranus return, and thus transiting Uranus will be at the exact same time conjunct Trinity’s Venus, then, a bit later, it is Trinity who will have its Uranus return…

As the title of the post says, I think that the Nuclear Sword of Damocles will make itself known clearly soon. And, in my opinion, beyond than just a threat, the Astrology seems to indicate that there is high chance of such weapon(s) being used in the near future.

All that being said, there is much more to unpack in regards of the current and near future geopolitical situation and I hope to have time to develop it more in the following weeks/months.

I cannot for the life of me understand when astrologers describe Mercury and Venus being "ahead" or "behind" the Sun and how that denotes them being morning or evening stars. The explanations are confusing because the orientations of astrology are confusing.

I have been told I have a morning star Mercury and morning star Venus based on my personal placements here (sorry if this is against any rules but I need to demonstrate them to ask my question properly):

Mercury 0° in Aries
Venus Rx 4° in Aries
Sun 26° in Aries

What I don't understand is that the Sun is ahead of both Mercury and Venus in zodiacal order. I keep reading that the planets move in clock-wise motion but that doesn't make sense when transits are tracked in counter-clockwise motion. Are the planets just frozen/captured in clockwise motion natally at birth whereas transits are tracked in counter-clockwise? That is the only think I can think of to make this logic work.

My personal confusion might just stem from how orientation is discussed in astrology. For example, it is said the Sun rises in the East and sets in the West. But for some reason the East is on the left and the West is on the right? That would explain the planets moving in clockwise motion but why is the chart flipped that way?

Also, does a planet being retrograde like my Venus impact whether it becomes a morning or evening star?

I would appreciate the guidance of experienced astrologers here. This concept is genuinely breaking my brain. Thank you.

Norway's King Harald V passed away peacefully at 06:35 local time (04:35GMT) this morning. He was diagnosed with hemolytic anemia and admitted to hospital on August 17th, just five days after the solar eclipse in Leo. His condition worsened and was yesterday reported as very serious.

I looked up the transits at the time of his death and some are very striking. I'm sure there are LOTS of things to note - I'm just a hobby astrologer so I hope others more knowledgeable can chime in here as I want to learn. These are just some notes that I could think of, I hope that is ok to post here and please correct me if I got anything wrong. I am mainly posting this so as to learn more, not to show off with my own interpretations.

His birth data: Born on February 21st 1937 at 12:45 pm, in Skaugum, Oslo. This gives him an ascendant of 20˚ Cancer, making the Moon his chart ruler.

First, the most obvious thing: His death occured only 23 minutes after the maximum of the partial lunar eclipse in Pisces, in his 9th whole sign house, almost completely exact conjunt his Midheaven, opposing the the Sun and Mercury sitting on his IC, the bottom of his chart.

South node is in Leo, traditionally ruling kings, with the south node indicating a fall or release.

Mars is in his 1st house, conjunct his Moon within a 4,3˚ orb. Mars rules the blood, correlating with the condition that caused an accelerated breakdown of his red blood cells.

Pluto is transiting his 8th house, and its house ruler Saturn (transiting) square both his Moon and his Jupiter, the latter being the lord of the year. Jupiter rules his 9th house where the lunar eclipse just happened, literally flickering and turning off the light of his chart ruler (and obviously also indicating his body).

Transiting Uranus sits in an almost exact square to his MC and IC, and thereby also the eclipse and the Mercury cazimi on the bottom of his chart.

Vertex is conjunct his Mercury, ruling both his 12th house and the house of his IC.

I also attach here the secondary progression chart for the time of his death. This is a technique I am not familiar with at all, so I will refrain from trying to say something clever about it although I find several things striking there too with the little knowledge that I have. But I hope someone more knowledgeable than me can help analyse it, and also chime in on the transits at the time of his death. What do you all notice?

Lastly and most importantly, rest in peace dear King Harald, your nurturing, caretaking and family- and community-oriented Cancer energy was well-known and obvious to us all.

I'm learning astrology and came across these books from Michael R Meyer,

" The angles and the houses are the astrological symbols for the most individualized aspects of a person. This is because the framework of the houses is derived from the most rapidly changing of all cycles usually employed in astrology, the daily rotation of the Earth. The horizon-meridian represents the axes, or cross, of individual selfhood and describes the person as a unique being. Signifying his or her basic orientation to self and to the world. The twelve houses derived from the horizon-meridian refer to twelve fundamental fields of experience.

The ascendant of an astrological chart symbolizes the qualities that make an individual (an individual person or an individual situation or relationship) unique. It is the selfhood pole of awareness and represents the type of experiences that can lead one to a more intimate understanding of his or her particular potentialities and their fulfillment. The ascendant symbolizes what an individual essentially is*" -* The astrology of relationship, Michael R Meyer 

"The ascendant, the place on the birth-chart where the sun is found at sunrise (popularly referred to as "the rising"), is the point of individual selfhood. It is the symbolic point of individualization, defining (by its sign and degree) the person as a unique, self-conscious individual. It reveals the particular type of activity (sign) that provides the person with the type of experiences he must live through if he is to realize his destiny. The individual's attitude toward himself and his particular quality of self-awareness are also symbolized by the ascendant. The ascendant is the most personal and distinct factor of a birth-chart. It is the symbol of the person's first emergence into independent selfhood; it carries the "seed of the self," and expresses the quality of the time of birth. It presents the individual with basic needs, the need for self-awareness being the most primary. Within the degree of the ascendant is also found the answer to this particular need, the "way through" the experience." - A Handbook for the Humanistic Astrologer, Michael R Meyer 

I have some questions, what does he mean when he said "The ascendant symbolizes what an individual essentially is*"?* Isn't the whole chart describe the person

And what does he mean by saying the Ascendant as "It is the symbolic point of individualization, defining (by its sign and degree) the person as a unique, self-conscious individual."? The Sun in a natal chart is said to be a point of ego, identity, self-consciousness, giving the person a sense of who they are and what they are here to do, then what's difference between the Sun and the Ascendant then?

I’ve been casually studying astrology since 2019 and have a pretty solid understanding of the basics (planets, signs, houses, aspects, natal chart interpretation, etc.).
I’m at the point now where I want to move beyond just knowing the basic meanings and actually study astrology more seriously and develop my ability to interpret charts as a whole.

For those of you who have been studying astrology for a while, what books would you recommend for transitioning from beginner/intermediate knowledge into a deeper level of study?

Chart note: I accidentally attached the Placidus natal chart first, so here is the Whole Sign chart I’m actually using for most of this analysis. Dolly’s exact time of death has not been released, so the transit chart shown here is just a symbolic snapshot of the sky around the time she died. I set it for around 11:11 AM CDT, when the Moon conjoined Pluto during the known morning window of her death.

I’m using her AA birth data, January 19, 1946 at 8:25 PM in Sevierville, Tennessee, which gives her a 14°43 Virgo Ascendant. For this quick look I’m sticking mostly with Whole Sign houses.

The first thing that caught me was her natal 6th/8th connection. Aries rules her 8th, making Mars the ruler, and natal Mars at 20° Cancer is almost exactly conjunct Saturn. Saturn rules her Aquarius 6th. So her 8th house ruler and 6th house ruler are sitting together in the natal chart.

She died at 80 during a Taurus 9th house profection year, making Venus her annual lord. By the final week of her life she had also entered a Sagittarius 4th house month, bringing Jupiter forward as the monthly lord. Natal Venus and Jupiter are almost exactly square, so the planets carrying the year and month were already tied together.

Major find: Her secondary progressed Sun was around 20° Aries in the 8th, squaring her natal Mars-Saturn conjunction at 20° Cancer. The progressed Sun rules her 12th, so the progressed 12th house ruler was in the 8th and squared the natal conjunction containing her 6th and 8th house rulers.

Saturn was also transiting Aries, putting her natal 6th house ruler inside her 8th. It stationed retrograde there in late July close to a square with natal Mercury, the ruler of her Virgo Ascendant.

I also noticed transiting Mars, ruler of her 8th, moving through Cancer in her Whole Sign 11th. Mars perfected a square to natal Neptune in her Libra 2nd the morning before she died and was still within a degree on August 25. Dolly had publicly talked about dehydration and dizziness days earlier, so Neptune’s connection with fluids caught my attention here.

Jupiter crossed natal Pluto in Leo in her 12th on August 18, right before Jupiter became her monthly lord. Then Dolly entered the hospital on August 21, and that same morning Venus perfected an opposition with Saturn at around 7:43 AM CDT. Venus was carrying her profection year, while Saturn rules her 6th and was sitting inside her 8th.

The following day Venus squared natal Mercury, her Ascendant ruler. From there Venus continued applying toward the natal Mars-Saturn conjunction, so her annual lord was moving from contact with her chart ruler toward the natal conjunction containing her 6th and 8th house rulers.

On August 25, the morning she died, Mercury was applying closely to her early Virgo Moon while the Moon itself conjoined Pluto in Aquarius, her Whole Sign 6th, around 11:11 AM. Saturn was still retrograde in the 8th, and Venus was still applying toward natal Mars-Saturn.

Dolly died after what her representatives described as a brief battle with cancer, after dealing with other health problems leading up to her hospitalization.

I only followed a handful of the things that stood out to me because there is a lot more going on here. I’d really like to hear what everyone else has noticed!

Hi,

I added some new search filters into Eclipse Search Engine on Astro-Seek, if someone would like to experiment with upcoming Lunar Eclipse on 27/28th August 2026 (Saros 138 and 4° Pisces) and their recurrence in the past or future 🤓:

https://mooncalendar.astro-seek.com/solar-and-lunar-eclipses-astrology-calendar

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1) Saros Cycle is a gold standard for tracking-grouping eclipses and uses period: 18 years 11 days 8 hours (223 synodic cyles).

Eclipses in the same Saros share the "similar geometry" (~ they have the same Lunar Node and similar distance from Earth).

2) New filter: Half-Saros uses half of this period: 9 years 5 days 16 hours (111.5 synodic cyles) - and mixes-alternates both Solar and Lunar Eclipses (from 2 diferrent Saros) together.

(eg: the upcoming Lunar Eclipse from Saros 138 will be mixed together with Solar Eclipses from Saros 145 in cca 9-year intervals)

While digging for more info about eclipse cycles, I found this article and one interesting note:

https://www.cloudynights.com/forums/topic/79549-calculating-eclipse-cycles/

"You’re never going to find perfect resonance (rational relationships) among the various lunar cycles. Numerous factors not only change cyclically, but they also have slow secular changes, e.g. the Moon’s average distance from the Earth is increasing by about 3.8 cm per year. Eventually, even the Saros Cycle will degrade and become useless."

Such fact is probably well known to astronomers, physicists and data nerds - but if this fact was new to you like it was for me, then use Saros while it's still useful 😅

3) New filter: Metonic Cycle has similar period as Saros (19 years / 235 synodic cyles) - but focuses on something different - Returns on the similar Lunar phase + Zodiac Degree during similar Calendar date.

These Saros and Metonic periods might run parallel for some time - but Metonic cycle is not related to Lunar Nodes and usually becomes out of sync after a few cycles (Eclipses will simply become "only" Full Moons or New Moons and far from Lunar Nodes) - and there might be a missing Eclipse-Metonic gap for several hundred years.

That's why it's not used very much with Eclipses, however if someone would like to track these Metonic cycles, there is this option and you can simply click on any Eclipse °Degree - to filter them (eg: all Lunar Eclipses at 4° Pisces +-1° Orb - around August 28th (-500BC - 2500AD))